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Mechanical Maintenance Technician
Mechanical Maintenance Technician
- 3855
- Chippenham
- Wessex Water
- £42,000 to £47,000
- Permanent
- Operations and maintenance
- 2026-03-17
- 2026-03-31
Are you a Maintenance Technician looking to take the next step in your career within the water industry? Are you a Field Service Engineer looking for a more varied role or a Maintenance Technician who has previous experience working in a 24/7 operational plant and machinery environment? If so, we have a great opportunity for a Mechanical Maintenance Technician to join our team.
What you'll do
As a Maintenance Technician, you will enable and carry out planned preventative maintenance and reactive work across our sites. You will assist the manager with organising workloads and contractors while also working with site operation teams and other EM&I departments to keep the site compliant.
A big part of this role will be to continuously identify and look for ways to make improvements around site to increase the reliability of our plant, assets and site compliance.
Your other responsibilities will include:
- ensuring the effective operation of plant machinery and equipment is maintained
- carrying out fault finding, fault diagnosis and fault resolution
- planning and organising workloads
- managing contractors and issuing permits to work
- understanding assets and our design standards to provide the best possible service to customers
- producing condition reports on plant/assets
- visually inspecting and condition monitoring assets
- reviewing Scada trends to review system performance and investigating issues
- managing critical spares and spares lists
- delivering a first-class safety approach to work
- working in and around DSEAR Zones
- assisting with the delivery of schemes.
What you'll need
You will be a Maintenance Technician who has comprehensive experience in mechanical fault finding and who has a background working within a 24/7 operational plant and machinery environment.
In addition you will need:
- a City & Guilds/BTEC, NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or a time served Engineering apprenticeship
- formal electrical training (dual skilled) - (preferred but not essential)
- to be fully competent using a range of IT equipment, software and corporate reports
- to be familiar with working in a health and safety focussed environment and have personally contributed to safer working practices
- have a valid UK driving licence.
You will have on-going training opportunities to develop your skillset and knowledge such as CompEx training.
What you'll receive
- A combined pension contribution of up to 20%.
- Career progression and professional development opportunities.
- 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service.
- The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
- The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
- A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
- Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
- The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
- Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
- One paid volunteering day each year.
- Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
- Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform.
- Support from trained mental health first aiders.
- A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us.
Who we are
YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. The UK companies include:
- Wessex Water – one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West
- YTL Developments – a major UK developer currently redeveloping a 350-acre former airfield into an award-winning, exciting mix of houses, apartments, schools, commercial space, restaurants and hotels, to make a truly sustainable new community
- YTL Construction UK – a top 20 UK contractor providing fully integrated services to infrastructure, residential, commercial, industry, energy and environmental sectors
- YTL Live – the development and operation of an entertainment complex that includes a 20,000 capacity arena, conferencing and exhibition space
- plus a number of other retail, environmental and specialist businesses.
Our people tell us that YTL UK is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have a unique opportunity to develop and progress your career within such a diverse group.
We are passionate about diversity and inclusion – with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer.
If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please inform a member of our Recruitment team.
Our diversity memberships
Armed Forces Covenant
Autism at Work Programme
Disability Confident Employer
Business Disability Forum
South West Women in Construction
The Women's Work Lab
Work, Wellbeing and Employment Services
Menopause Workplace Pledge